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In a further sign of Vladimir Putin's anger at the incident, which left one Russian pilot dead, Moscow announced plans to deploy state-of-the art air defence missile systems in Syria.

Kremlin officials described the incident as a "planned provocation" and have vowed a tough response.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: "We have no intention of fighting a war with Turkey.”

Speaking on a trip to the Ural mountains city of Nizhny Tagil, Putin added: “I hope that this, along with other measures that we are taking, will be enough to ensure [the safety] of our flights.”

The S-400 missile systems will be sent to the Hemeimeem air base in Latakia, about 30 miles south of the border with Turkey.

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A Turkish army truck loaded with a self-propelled gun heading to the Syrian border

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A Turkmen soldier whose militia group is under attack from Russia

The systems have a range up to 250 miles and are capable of targeting Turkish jets with deadly precision.

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu also confirmed the Russian missile cruiser Moskva has moved closer to shore to protect aircraft flying missions near Syria's border with Turkey, using its long-range Fort air defence system.

At a meeting with military officials, he said: "It will be ready to destroy any aerial target posing a potential danger to our aircraft."

He added that from now on all Russian bombers would be escorted by fighters on their combat missions in Syria.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was forced to fly missions close to the Turkish border because that was where the militants tended to be located.

Russian sorties are expected to continue in the area as Moscow seeks to warn Ankara off a second missile attack.

Russian plane shot down over Turkey

Tue, November 24, 2015

A Russian Su-24 fighter jet has been shot out of the sky over the Turkish-Syrian border.

Flames can be seen coming out of the fighter jet that was shot down over Turkey

Jets believed to be Russian also hit a depot for trucks waiting to go through a major rebel-controlled border crossing with Turkey, Bab al-Salam, the head of the crossing said.

Syrian jets have struck the area before, but if confirmed to have been carried out by Russia, it would be one of Moscow's closest air strikes to Turkish soil, targeting a humanitarian corridor into rebel-held Syria and a lifeline for ordinary Syrians crossing to Turkey.

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Turkmen soldiers patrol with motorcycles

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President Vladimir Putin says Russian air strikes in Syria would last as long as was necessary

Speaking after the dramatic downing of the Russian jet, the surviving navigator, Captain Konstantin Murakhtin, denied that the aircraft had veered into Turkey's airspace "even for a single second".

He also rejected the Turkey's claim that it had issued repeated warnings to the Russian crew before shooting down the plane.

Mr Murakhtin said there were "no warnings whatsoever," adding that he wants to keep flying missions from the base "to pay them back for my commander".